Archive for Auctions, Barters, Sales
June 20, 2008 at 12:46 am · Filed under Auctions, Barters, Sales
Auction templates are simply a must for successful online auction selling. One day I spent approximately 45 minutes writing a listing for an item that would make me about $5 in profit! I suddenly realized the stupidity of what I was doing. Here I was scheming and plotting to become a net millionaire - and I could work at WalMart and make more money than this!
It seems as though you are selling products on eBay, but really you’re not. What you have to sell is:
* Your time
* Your knowledge
And you must maximize the use of your time, rather than spend it constantly writing listings. The best way to do this, of course, is with a template. A template is a pattern that you can use again and again, without having to write news listings every time you have an eBay auction.
Here is an example of a template that I used when I was selling ready-made websites on eBay:
http://auction-genius-course.com/listings/template2.shtml
I only had to make a few changes on the page, such as …
* The picture at the top left
* The website name
* The appraised value
… and my auction was ready to list. Time spent: under five minutes!
Personally, I make my own templates, but if you do not want to do likewise, you might consider eBay’s management service which offers templates as part of its package.
http://pages.ebay.com/sell/tools.html
Naturally, there are many off-eBay auction templates as well.
Free template sources:
http://auctionsupplies.com/templates
http://nucite.com/templates
http://web.thenetter.com/free_templates_and_graphics.html
http://www.firstauction.com/template/template_generator_others.htm
http://www.antique-central.com/tips1.html
http://auctioninsights.com/practice/auction-template.html
http://desacs.com/downloadtemplates/auctiontemplates.htm
http://woowoodesigns.com/collection1.html
Paid template sources:
http://www.auctiontemplatecentral.com
http://www.auction-resources.com/templates.html
http://www.pc-limited.com/ebay.html
http://www.auction-lizard.com/lizard
http://zoovy.com
Without auction templates my eBay success would have been much less than it is. If you are selling the same items repeatedly, you must use templates or you will waste far too much time in repetitious, tedious tasks. Success isn’t about killing yourself working 20 hour days, but about managing your time to make maximum profits.
Sydney Johnston, the AUCTION QUEEN, was one of the original sellers on eBay and has been selling on eBay since the winter of 1996. She is the originator and teacher of the famous Auction Genius Course, a powerful 16 hour multi media seminar on the Internet that teaches her students how to sell on ebay.
May 10, 2008 at 4:45 pm · Filed under Auctions, Barters, Sales
It can be very time-consuming to keep your auctions ticking along, especially if you have hundreds listed at a time. Don’t despair, though: there are a few things you can do to take the weight off you.
Use My eBay.
If you want a broad overview of where you are with your auctions, make sure you pay a visit to My eBay occasionally instead of just relying on emails. With my eBay, you can see all your auctions in a big table, and sort by things like the number of bids and the current price. If you want to see which of your auctions currently has no bids, then you can do that.
One of the most useful things about My eBay, though, is the ‘Summary’ view. If you’re not sure what you should be doing next, then this acts effectively as an eBay to-do list: anything you need to be doing will end up here.
Use Selling Manager.
If you’re willing to pay the fee of $4.99 per month, you can sign up for Selling Manager, which is a more effective version of the My eBay ‘Selling’ view. It lets you customise your view more effectively to see the information that’s important to you, see useful snapshots of how things are going, make automated responses to your buyers using email templates, and more.
Selling Manager Pro gives you more features: it keeps track of inventory for you, and lets you relist items in bulk. It will even produce a monthly profit and loss report to help you keep track of the big picture. Unfortunately, it costs $15.99 per month.
Use a Listing Tool.
Even though they’re called listing tools, much of the software out there lets you manage what you’re doing long after it’s been listed, with all the features of Selling Manager and sometimes a few more besides. This programs also often have the advantage of being programs instead of websites, meaning they’re faster to respond and can do more sophisticated analysis.
Remember the ‘Relist’ Button.
After your auctions end each time, there’s an easy way to put the exact same thing back again: the ‘Relist’ button. You can Relist items quickly and easily this way, as long as you don’t want to change in the listing.
Pay Someone!
Here’s something you might not have considered: if you’re listing so many expensive items that even automated selling tools take too long to use, then have you considered paying someone to help out, as an employee? After all, you wouldn’t try to staff a shop full-time on your own, would you? If you already run a business, you could even give the responsibility to someone who works for you there. Freeing up your own time to do something else might pay off for you in the long run.
When you’re managing so many auctions, sooner or later you might need to cancel one of them early. The next email will let you know when and how you can do it.
Kirsten Hawkins is an Ebay and internet auction enthusiast from Nashville, TN. Visit www.auctionseller411.com/ for more great tips on how to make the most from Ebay and other online auctions.
April 4, 2008 at 9:39 am · Filed under Auctions, Barters, Sales
How far do you have to go to turn your dreams into reality?
Not far, says my friend and Internet legend Armand Morin. Not far at all. In fact sit down, right where you are and switch on that dusty old computer.
Here at your fingertips is the way to turn your dreams into reality.
Virtual business will do it.
At least it did for me and those that are open to learning , it involves just using some very lucrative but effective creativity.
Now we’ve all been told: don’t just listen to anyone! But when some one who made millions in just a few weeks on line says listen you tend to listen pretty carefully. And what he has to say is not rocket science it’s more like savvy with a capital ‘S’.
If you can grasp the idea of buying a fixer upper in the real estate market giving it a lick of paint, dressing it up a little, and selling it for twice the price, than you will relate to what to what a great concept this really is ?
We are finding a property - a cyber property - that’s a fixer upper. Then we are fixing it up… we are redesigning it. That’s all we’re doing.Not exactly difficult any one can do it?
When first introduced to the the system that allows you the opportunity to have fun while multiplying your profits by anything from two to ten times. You will find yourself thinking how come I never thought of that?. It’s a progressional product creation and when you hear the simple steps involved it makes it seem like straight common sense.
The first thing you do is go to eBay, click on the businesses for sale and look for the fixer uppers. So what exactly is a virtual fixer upper?
Well, the first thing you look for says is a sound product.
Something that people want. The best approach is all about getting the most for the least amount of effort.
You want to find something that is in high demand, that people are interested in right now and in an established market and something that is imminently affordable.
What you are looking for is into avoiding any pain. It must be quick, it must be easy and it must NOT bust the budget. That’s how it gets to be fun.
I have just brought another one of these fixer upper sites myself and you can see it at www.goodcreditrepair.com
I have only had this site a few days so still not got round to changing it
you might be thinking why bother but read on..
Once you zone in on the fixer upper with all these qualities you move right in and spend all of a few hours on some selective redesigning like adding an irresistible headline and a simple but persuasive sales letter.
Then you put the new improved site back up and do something audacious like double the price of the product or membership, place a few ezine ads and you’ve established a fixed monthly sum of anything from $1500 to $2000 which functions almost totally on auto pilot.
Now, because this takes you all of a couple of hours to get up and running, you can afford to get more inventive. You can brain storm your newly acquired site and engage in a little of that magical progressional product creation that will increase your sales with every creative tweak.
And all of this while you sit at your desk surfing the Internet and drinking a good cup of coffee.
Imagine that several hundreds of dollars from just a few short hours of work.
I can hardly wait to get another site it’s just so much fun …
Graham Waite of Auction Wealth Secrets brings you cutting edge techniques to make money on ebay and online auctions . Get the latest hottest ideas with our free 7 day mini course vist make money on ebay
